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Tuesday, October 08, 2013

The State of the Reading

Ugh! Slumptitude! I think I may be coming out of it, but I've been slumping for the better part of a week. Basically, since I finished Mudbound, by Hillary Jordan, because it's so dang amazing it killed my mojo for all other books.

Over the weekend I started and stopped several books. And some of you are going to be shocked...

These are probably the two books I've been most excited about this season, and they are both DNFs. I gave them 75 pages each to grab me and it just didn't happen. With Havisham, the choppy writing warded me off. Literally, it's told in these just-a-few-paragraphs-long chunks. Weird. And more like telling than showing. Ugh!

As for Antigoddess, I just didn't care about the characters after 75 pages. It was an easy, quick read, but I wasn't enjoying it. Given, I'm picky when it comes to books that serve as mythological retellings or continuations, and I read one of the best of the best this year with The Song of Achilles. Maybe that squashed my enjoyment of this one.

On the flip side, I didn't think I was in the mood for Dracula or Kindred, the two books I'm supposed to be buddy reading this month. However, when I picked them up and dug in yesterday, they seem to be sticking just fine! Hallelujah! I've read about 50 pages of each, and I have no qualms continuing.

Not sure how much I'll be reading this week since Heather and I are neck-deep in finalizing details for this season's Dewey's 24 Hour Read-a-Thon!!! We goofed and scheduled it for Canadian Thanksgiving, so we're definitely missing our friends to the north. Have you signed up? There's still time!

And just in case you're curious, this is my RIDICULOUS Read-a-Thon "Potentials Pile." And no, I don't always keep it on the stove. It was the best light at the time. lol

25 comments:

I just read Dracula for the first time a few years back (in fact, finished it during read-a-thon), and I was so surprised by how much I loved it! Hope you do too!I haven't read a single one of those books in your read-a-thon pool, but I'd like to read a lot of them! I did read a different graphic novel by Laura Lee Gulledge (Page by Paige), and really liked it a lot. Good luck with Dewey's Read-a-Thon!!! Still so very grateful that you Heather are at the helm now. :)

I was hoping to join the readathon this year, especially since it's a long weekend for me, but I am unable to. I need a more cooperative household! I am planning to read whenever I can that day though and so will be participating unofficially, all in the spirit of the event. :-)

I love them, too. Garden Spells was the first one I ever read, and I totally gulped it down. The Girl Who Chased the Moon was the first book I read on my ereader that SO thoroughly sucked me in that I forgot I was reading on a device. Good stuff!

I was thinking of joining the readathon this year, for the first time! but I'm in Canada, and yes it's our Thanksgiving weekend. It's already filling up :-( I'll be thinking of everyone and will read as much as I can. Thank you for putting it together again, and I hope it gets you out of your reading slump. You have enough books there for the start, anyway!

You somehow passed your slumptitude germs my way! I am a reading slug. Down to the final pages of two books and have no idea what to read next. Not sure I even want to! I am so distracted. All I can think about is American Horror Story: Coven (airs tonight!) and roasted turkey. Yes, turkey. That's is what I am thinking about.

I'm so excited about the readathon :D When I saw your pile on instagram you totally made me nervous because I thought the books would burn :p Light Boxes was a really interesting read! I haven't read the Fruits Basket manga but I LOVED the anime series....it was adorable and super heartfelt. I hope your slump passes! Surely the readathon will get rid of it :)

I’m bummed because we will be out of state visiting family all weekend. This is the first Dewey read-a-thon that I won't be reading all day since I joined the fun a couple years ago. I'm thinking I might count my reading on Friday night because we will have a 7 hour drive and then all day Saturday we'll be with fam. I'm not sure that counts, but I think I'm going to start my read-a-thon about 7 hours early : ) It's either that or nothing, so I think I'm going to do that.

Have fun! I still need to read Dracula. I don't know what is making me put it off because I have a feeling I'll love it. Have you read The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova? I loved it and that's what made me want to pick up Dracula, but that was years ago so I guess I'm slacking.